The African slender-snouted crocodile (Mecistops cataphractus), long thought to be a single species, is actually two distinct species, according to an...
An international team of researchers has uncovered a giant reservoir of water beneath the ice sheet in Southeast Greenland.
This map shows locations of...
An international group of entomologists has described a new genus and species of fungus-farming ant from Brazil.
Cyatta abscondita. Image credit: Jeffrey...
Archaeologists have uncovered the remains of a 1,000-year-old wealthy estate with a fountain and a garden at an archaeological site in the city of Ramla,...
A team of researchers led by Prof Artem Oganov of Stony Brook University has shown that, under certain conditions, ordinary rock salt can take on some...
According to an international group of astronomers, two unusual stellar explosions detected in 2006 and 2007 are a new subclass of superluminous supernova...
A large international consortium of genetic researchers has sequenced and analyzed the complete genome of Amborella trichopoda, the sole survivor of an...
Canadian paleontologists have described a new genus and species of raptor dinosaur that lived in western North America about 66 million years ago, at the...
Peruvian and American biologists have described three beautiful new species in the lizard genus Liolaemus.
Liolaemus pachacutec. Image credit: Aguilar...
Genetic scientists from China have discovered a small portion of Neanderthal genome (18 genes on chromosome 3, with several related to UV-light adaptation)...
A comparison of the high-quality genome sequence of a 50,000-year-old Neanderthal woman with those of modern humans and Denisovans reveals a long history...
An international team of paleontologists have discovered fossils of a new horse species that was about the size of a small zebra and roamed eastern Africa...
A new study published online in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences provides possible evidence of domesticated cats between 5,560 and 5,280...
A team of entomologists from Italy and China has described nine new species of wasps in the genus Cleptes.
Cleptes helanshanus. Image credit: Zai-fu Xu.
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A tiny bone of an early human species, possibly Homo erectus, found in Kenya is the earliest evidence of a modern human-like hand, according to a team...
